Cloé Harent wins the Tremplin Jeunes Talents Prize

« With Cloé Harent, it is a Deauville of the infinitely small, molluscs, lichen, anemones that emerges. In these spaces never before explored by young talents: the “tidal flats”, the sea line. This poetic space to which the waves abandon and maintain a whole tiny life, a strange witness to a geological time », explains the jury of the Tremplin Jeunes Talents Prize 2024. This is awarded as part of Planches Contact, the Deauville photography festival. This prize, accompanied by a grant of 6,000 euros, allows the winner to benefit from a residency offered by the InCadaqués Festival, partner of Planches Contact, to enable her to create a unique series, which will be exhibited in Deauville during the next edition.

Among more than 280 applications, 5 young photographers were selected for the residency organized each year in Deauville as part of the festival: Nicola Fioravanti, Maximilien Schaeffer, Rachel Seidu, Marie Wengler and Cloé Harent. Among them, it is therefore the latter which was selected for its documentary practice which focuses on the traces of human beings on the environment. She was chosen by a jury chaired by photographer Sarah Moon and composed of Alain Genestar, vice-president of the jury and general director of Polka Magazine ; Lionel Charrier, editor-in-chief photo of Liberation ; Babeth Djian, editorial director of Number ; Anne Lacoste, director of the Hauts-de-France Institute of Photography; Thierry Grillet, curator, writer and essayist; Édouard Carmignac, creator of the Carmignac Foundation; Marin Karmitz, founder of MK2 cinemas; Philippe Augier, mayor of Deauville; and Laura Serani, artistic director of Planches Contact.

Cloé Harent, born in 1998 and graduated from ETPA in Toulouse, notably participated in 2019 in the 1+2 Factory Residence and in 2021 in the mission of the Pyrenees Institute of Photography. Since 2018, she has been developing the series The bond of the earthwhich earned her the ISEM Young Photographers Prize in 2021. She exhibited at the VU' gallery (Paris) in 2023, as part of the VU' Agency Mentoring and the Régnier Fund for Creation.